dianaschnuth

Aaron has just left with Jessie and Kris to go to the lake, leaving me to my own devices for the weekend. This is my chance to tackle some projects I’ve been needing to do, but haven’t been motivated to start in the evenings after work.

Potentially on the agenda for today:

• Do laundry
• Wash the dishes (not a major project, but it needs done, and I should take responsibility for my banana pudding mixing bowl)
• Clean and organize my desk
• Clean my corner of the bedroom and put my clothes away
• Work on the LSM website
  (and throw together a trifold brochure like I promised I’d do months ago)
• Practice my mellophone

I don’t know if I’ll finish all these tasks today, but I’m going to try to avoid getting sidetracked and doing something other than these tasks, anyway.

To start off, I think I’m going to go make myself some lunch and see what’s on PBS while I eat. I ate so much at yesterday’s potluck at work that I never got hungry for dinner, so now I’m starving. o.O

I’ve been working on the new LSM site for some time now. It’s finally starting to gel. But last week’s vacation was a vacation from everything, including working on the site. The work-in-progress needs to be shown to the members soon, preferably within the next day or two, and I want to have it totally complete in about a month. There are still some things I don’t know how to do at all yet, like letting members download files from a directory outside of the root “public_html” directory. I know it can be done, though.

So, I should really be working on that. And practicing my mellophone, as we have rehearsal in less than a week, and that particular rehearsal will be our last full-day rehearsal before our final performance.

However… I have The Cleaning Bug™. I never get the itch to clean, and right now I have the desire to make things look pretty, especially the cat/sewing room (aka Someday Schnuthie Junior’s Room).

My plants are also suffering, and probably a third of my houseplants require repotting for one reason or another. Many of them are wilty from heat and from settling of soil in their respective pots. I’d like to take them outside and repot them with some TLC (er, Tender Loving Care, that is, not The Learning Channel, although I suppose they could probably help, too).

Oh, and did I mention that I bought a Singer Tiny Serger at Savers for three bucks? Yeah. And it works! Hence the resurgence of the Sewing Room idea. So, I’d also like to be sewing. I have an idea for my next t-shirt surgery sketched out right here on my desk, staring me in the face, mocking me.

I need to establish this evening’s priorities. Which sucks. Can’t I just do everything?

*sigh*

Update, 9:30pm: Sifted through one box of crap in the sewing room while listening to the final episode of Earthcore. Sat outside and plucked the dead parsley plants out from the living, mainly as an excuse to enjoy the weather. Tweaked a little on the new LSM site, composed an e-mail to the membership about the Work In Progress, and fired it off. Still have a good 90 minutes before I should think about winding down for the night. Word.

It’s probably not good form to announce to the entire internet that I’ll be away from my place of residence for a few days, but… *shrug* If you ever wondered how that Habitec security system of ours works, I guess now’s the time to break in and check it out?

(Note: Just kidding. Please don’t break in while we’re gone. kthx.)

Aaron and I are taking a brief vacation in Amish Country tomorrow and Wednesday, and checking out the Rock Hall and Body Worlds 2 exhibit (plasticized corpses!) in Cleveland on Thursday. So, I’ll be incommunicado for a few days here.

Yay for vacations! I’ll let you know if Amish Country rocks or sucks.